Overview
- Discusses background information for researchers, academia and students
- Explains scenarios of food security in Bangladesh
- Provides initiatives for policy implementation
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy analysis, and the role and actions of various stakeholders from different sectors to ensure food security.
Bangladesh is situated in a climatically vulnerable position and is impacted frequently by such climatic hazards as floods, cyclones, droughts, and salinity intrusion. Due to global atmospheric changes, abrupt shifts in climatic conditions severely affect Bangladesh’s agriculture. Although Bangladesh has made significant progress in increasing domestic production of food grain, if the production of major cereals is hampered due to climate change, food security will be in jeopardy. Most estimates show that a huge amount of additional food grain will be required to feed the growing population of the country. Ensuring food security for all is the overarching goal of Bangladesh’s national food policy. Therefore, ensuring food security in the future requires a great deal of additional effort in yield improvement, with limited scope for expanding the area under cultivation.
The primary target readers for this book are students and researchers in the fields of environment, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies. The book will provide them with a good idea of the current trend of research in the field and will furnish basic knowledge on this important topic. Another target group comprises practitioners and policy makers, who will be able to apply collective knowledge to policy and decision making.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Security and Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
Editors: Umma Habiba, Abu Wali Raghib Hassan, Md. Anwarul Abedin, Rajib Shaw
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55411-0
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55410-3Published: 31 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56388-4Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55411-0Published: 18 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Regional and Cultural Studies